Video

April 8th, 2010 by
Al

The newest program from MAGIX, Movie Edit Pro 16 Plus, is a lot like Movie Edit Pro 16, but with loads more options for your videos. It’s had a lot of improvements, like making the design more intuitive and adding some new features, including:

Secondary color correction

Blu-ray™ and AVCHD discs with animated menus

New DVD menu design

Title editor with improved quality and direct previewing

Object zoom function for precise effects control

Unique travel route animation

It has more than 1500 special effects, cinematic transitions and templates, and it has full HD support for HDV and AVCHD camcorders. You can use up to 99 multimedia tracks, and it supports Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. And if you’re using more than one camera, you can easily edit together the footage from two different cameras.

This is only really scratching the surface of what Movie Edit Pro 16 Plus can do, though. If you want to try it out for yourself, it’s £69.99 from the Magix site, or you can download a trial version.

April 17th, 2009 by
Keith

Early this month, VLC Media Player Portable 0.9.9 was released for public to be downloaded. The portable version is packaged as part of a portable app, so that you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play on the go.

This latest version includes a multilingual installer and fixes a bug where directory was left locally. Furthermore, it is released under the open source, and it is completely free. The VLC Media Player is both a cross-platform multi-media player and a streaming server.

As a media player, it is highly portable, supporting various audio and video formats, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, etc. Furthermore, the VLC player also playbacks DVDs and VCDs. In addition, it also works equally well as a streaming server to support unicast or multicast in IPv4 and IPv6 on high-bandwidth network. The application is also available in many operating systems, thus making it ultra-portable.

October 4th, 2008 by
Keith

Although I am not an avid fan of Apple (which many Apple / Mac fans will probably boycott me), I’m happy to inform that Apple has release the next version of Apple iTunes 8.0.1, as part of security fix over the version 8.0.

New Changes

• Seamlessly plays the current song when creating a new Genius playlist.

• Improves syncing spoken menus to iPod nano.

• Addresses an issue of deleting HD TV episodes when downloading.

• Improves checking for updates from the App Store.

• Improves accessibility with VoiceOver.

• Addresses problems syncing Genius results to iPod.

Because this version provides a lot more performance and bug fixes, particularly security fixes, iTunes users are highly encouraged to upgrade to this latest version. If you are using Mac OS X, this update is available from the Software Update.

September 23rd, 2008 by
Keith

According to Dave Merten, there is a security bug existing in QuickTime that may be used as a vector to attack the system. Available on both Mac OS X and Windows, the latest version of QuickTime 7.5.5 has been reported that the ” ” tag fails to handle long strings, which can lead to a heap of overflow in QuickTime Player, iTunes or any other programs that utilise media using QuickTime plug-in.

Such programs include, but not limited to, browser, Mail or even when a user attempts to view a file with Quick Look. The outcome results in crashing the programs, but the malicious code could be added to such files, and may be executed with no user interaction.

Detail are as follow:

Exploit: OSX.Exploit.QT755-1 Discovered: September 18, 2008 Risk: Low

No patch is yet to be released.

September 17th, 2008 by
Keith

The latest release of VLC Media Player 0.9.2 is now available for public to download. To-date, it has already achieved close to 1 million downloads for this version, averaging about 2-3 downloads per second (Quite curious myself too, as if that’s really the case). The VLC Media Player is both a cross-platform multi-media player and a streaming server.

As a media player, it is highly portable, supporting various audio and video formats, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, etc. Furthermore, the VLC player also playbacks DVDs and VCDs. In addition, it also works equally well as a streaming server to support unicast or multicast in IPv4 and IPv6 on high-bandwidth network.

The application is also available in many operating systems, thus making it ultra-portable. Download VLC Player here.

August 29th, 2008 by
Keith

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter or ripper. Made especially for Mac OS X fans, the software is also available in Windows and Linux environment; although it was originally available only on BeOS.

March 19th, 2008 by
Keith

Make no mistake about it, Microsoft Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 is now officially released. The standalone release of the service pack is now available from the website for download.Well, here are the release note information. There are far too many things, including bux fixes, security enhancement and added tools, to spell out. Nonetheless, users are recommended to install this service pack, particularly for security purposes.Download LinkMS Vista SP 1(for TechNet subscribers only)

October 7th, 2007 by
Keith

It has been a long time since I provide the latest news of any latest software release. This time, I hope to introduce Skype for Linux 1.4 Gold, codename Panacea.

The choice of this codename is in contention with a Greek mythology; Paacea, daughter of Asclepius, God of Medicine, and the granddaughter of Apollo, God of Healing, is a goddess of cures. And thus, the name is chosen for this version of Skype for Linux – in compairson of the improved voice call quality.

August 27th, 2007 by
Keith

MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.

Some of the functionalities are:

* pause, fast-forward and rewind live Television.

* install multiple video capture cards to record more than one program at a time.

* have multiple servers, each with multiple capture cards in them. All servers are centrally managed and all programs are scheduled by the Master backend.

* have multiple clients (called “frontends” in MythTV parlance), each with a common view of all available programs. Any client can watch any program that was recorded by any of the servers, assuming that they have the hardware capabilities to view the content; a low-powered frontend will not be able to watch HDTV, for example.

* Program Guide Data in North America is downloaded from schedulesdirect.org, a non-profit organization which has licensed data from Tribune Media Services. This service provides almost two weeks of scheduling information. Program Guide Data in other countries is obtained using XMLTV.

* MythTV implements a UPNP server, so a UPNP client should automatically see content from your MythTV system.

This program is known to work on both Linux and Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel), unfortunately it does not run on Windows. (more…)